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Surgeons Cash In on Stakes in Private Medical Device Companies
Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News
August 10, 2021
Several orthopedic surgeons who invested in Renovis Surgical Technologies made big money when a Japanese technology giant snatched up the small California medical device company. Kyocera Corp., which was eager to expand its U.S. spine and joint implant sales, bought Renovis’ assets in…
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From The Conversation: #HIT still lags
From The Conversation: #HIT still lags
COVID-19 revealed how sick the US health care delivery system really is
Elizabeth A. Regan, University of South Carolina
If you got the COVID-19 shot, you likely received a little paper card that shows you’ve been vaccinated. Make sure you keep that card in a safe place. There is no coordinated way to share information about who has been vaccinated and who has not.
That is just one of the…
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KHN: Why Even Presidential Pressure Might Not Get More Vaccine to Market Faster
KHN: Why Even Presidential Pressure Might Not Get More Vaccine to Market Faster
Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News and Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News and Arthur Allen and Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News
January 26, 2021
Americans are dying of covid-19 by the thousands, but efforts to ramp up production of potentially lifesaving vaccines are hitting a brick wall.
Vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are running their factories full tilt and are under enormous…
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HLM 2015: State gun rules vary for health systems
HLM 2015: State gun rules vary for health systems
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/QUA-318003/Gun-Laws-in-Health-Systems-Vary-by-
Hospitals aren’t havens from mass shootings
By Tinker Ready
For the staff at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the fuzzy security photo of a young man entering the Charleston church where he shot nine people had to be disturbingly familiar. A hospital camera recorded similar scenes in January,…
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KHN and PolitiFact: Lie of the Year: The Downplay and Denial of the Coronavirus
KHN and PolitiFact: Lie of the Year: The Downplay and Denial of the Coronavirus
by Daniel Funke, PolitiFact and Katie Sanders PolitiFact
December 16, 2020
This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. It can be republished for free.
A Florida taxi driver and his wife had seen enough conspiracy theories online to believe the virus was overblown, maybe even a hoax. So no masks for them. Then they got sick. She died. A college lecturer had trouble refilling her…
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KHN: How Pharma Money Colors Operation Warp Speed’s Quest to Defeat #COVID
KHN: How Pharma Money Colors Operation Warp Speed’s Quest to Defeat #COVID
Rachana Pradhan
November 30, 2020
April 16 was a big day for Moderna, a Massachusetts biotech company on the verge of becoming a front-runner in the U.S. government’s race for a coronavirus vaccine. It had received roughly half a billion dollars in federal funding to develop a COVID shot that might be used on millions of Americans.
Thirteen days after the massive…
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Pro Publica: COVID may keep thousands of nursing home residents from voting
Pro Publica: COVID may keep thousands of nursing home residents from voting
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Renowned inventor Walter Hutchins has voted in every presidential election since 1952. This year, as many states stopped sending teams to help seniors vote, his nursing home was on coronavirus lockdown and his streak was in jeopardy.
by Ryan…
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KHN -- Adjunct Professors: Jobs Are Low on Pay and Health Benefits With High COVID Risk
KHN — Adjunct Professors: Jobs Are Low on Pay and Health Benefits With High COVID Risk
Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News July 23, 2020
David Chatfield feels he transitioned from an unstable career in graphic design to what is becoming an even more unpredictable one in academia.
The 42-year-old teaches art history as an adjunct professor at two community colleges in Aurora and Fort Lupton, Colorado. He loves teaching, even when last semester the COVID-19 pandemic…
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KHN: Conspiracy theories aside, here’s what contact tracers really do
KHN: Conspiracy theories aside, here’s what contact tracers really do
Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News July 15, 2020
In the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic, contact tracing is downright buzzy, and not always in a good way.
Contact tracing is the public health practice of informing people when they’ve been exposed to a contagious disease. As it has become more widely employed across the country, it has also become mired in modern political polarization and…
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KHN: How a #COVID-19 vaccine could cost Americans dearly
KHN: How a #COVID-19 vaccine could cost Americans dearly
<h1>Analysis: How A COVID-19 Vaccine Could Cost Americans Dearly</h1>
Elisabeth Rosenthal July 8, 2020
Yes, of course, Americans’ health is priceless, and reining in a deadly virus that has trashed the economy would be invaluable.
But a COVID-19 vaccine will have an actual price tag. And given the prevailing business-centric model of American drug…
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KHN & AP: Hollowed-Out #PublicHealth System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus
KHN & AP: Hollowed-Out #PublicHealth System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus
Lauren Weber and Laura Ungar and Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Hannah Recht and Anna Maria Barry-Jester July 1, 2020
The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources to confront the worst health crisis in a century.
Marshaled against a virus that has sickened at least 2.6 million in the U.S., killed more than 126,000 people and cost tens of…
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ProPublica: U.S. hospitals and the first wave of the coronavirus
ProPublica: U.S. hospitals and the first wave of the coronavirus
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by Charles Ornstein June 15,
The prediction from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was grim.
In late March, as the number of COVID-19 cases was growing exponentially in the state, Cuomo said New York hospitals might need twice as many beds as they…
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KHN: Health Workers Resort To Etsy, Learning Chinese, Shady Deals To Find Safety Gear
KHN: Health Workers Resort To Etsy, Learning Chinese, Shady Deals To Find Safety Gear
Eli Cahan and Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News June 12, 2020
A nursing home worker in New Jersey rendezvoused with “the parking lot guy” to cut a deal for gowns. A director of safety-net clinics in Florida learned basic Chinese and waited outside past midnight for a truck to arrive with tens of thousands of masks. A cardiologist in South Carolina tried his luck with “shady characters” to buy…
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KHN: Hype Collides With Science As FDA Tries To Rein In ‘Wild West’ of COVID Blood Tests
KHN: Hype Collides With Science As FDA Tries To Rein In ‘Wild West’ of COVID Blood Tests
JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News and Anna Maria Barry-Jester
June 3, 2020
“Save your business while saving lives,” reads the website of Because Health, a Seattle tech startup selling two types of tests to employers willing to pay $350 a pop to learn whether their workers have been infected with COVID-19.
The “Workplace Health” plan includes not only nasal swab tests to detect…
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Obey! Shepard Fairy joins COVID fight
Obey! Shepard Fairy joins COVID fight
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